When does one plant garlic? and onions? Honestly, I’ve planted white and purple onions in March and they still look like they did when I put them in the ground, except they are bigger around, but no bulbs. My garlic was put in the ground in March. I planted them with my tomatoes and now they are somewhere, the green tops are gone. Hopefully the “bulbs” are growng underground and the green tops will reappear, sometime in the future. I’m befuddled.
I live in Western Pennsylvania so I plant garlic in October - around Columbus Day. They started coming up in March, I believe. This is my second try. Year before last, I took the shells off of each bulb. They didn’t come up in the spring. In fact, they completely rotted into the soil! LOL! When I planted last October, I separated each bulb into segments and left the skin on. It worked this time!
We always plant onions in March. They are one of the earliest that you can plant. Usually, you’ll get an “onion snow”. The snow won’t hurt the onions. We just did a second planting to be harvested in the fall.
Garlic goes in -in the fall.. you mulch it in and let it over winter.